her name is pepper. i lived a secret life. she was kidnapped at age four. we got in the car, and we never went back. she spent decades trying to find her way home again, and she finally made it. or, so she thought. i said, i think that i am rhonda patricia christine. i said, do you know her? and there was a long pause. her story had many ups and downs. when i looked at the email, i just could not even believe it. but after so many tears, so many years and so many turns in her story. i was like, wow. there are still more stunning twists to be revealed. it is amazing, the best gift ever. welcome to dateline. a four year old girl was adopted and raised by her kidnappers. for decades, she searched for her family, and her identity. her story has an extraordinary ending, but as it turns out, that ending was just the beginning. here is keith morrison. our story begins with this much mother of a teenage daughter. a woman who had spent much of h
marriage to work, i did not give up. soon he was gone, vanished without a word or a trace. he left the young daughter behind. he left the house. was this a husband who did not want to be found? or could this be something else. detectives are not an undercover operation. that would lead to a long hard to say ready for that? i know that it has to happen. disappearance in the desert. could it be the perfect crime. i can only imagine what would be like to keep that. welcome to dateline. i m lester holt. for eight years it was a mystery, a husband who had simply vanished. on the surface it didn t make sense. he had a wife, a lucrative job, a daughter he loved. but investigators were told he also had a secret. so was he missing or was he hiding? that question would lead detectives to a dark discovery because someone else had a secret to. here s josh michael it s. there is an old saying, that two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead. we never talked about
head home after the christmas holiday, and the delays in air travel. faith abubey from the world s busiest airport in atlanta. and rob marciano with the forecast. the u.s. retaliatory strikes overseas. shooting down houthi missiles and drones in the red sea. and hitting militant targets inside iraq, after three americans were hurt in an attack by an iran-backed paramilitary group. a top aide to benjamin netanyahu visits the white house, as the israeli prime minister lays out his preconditions for peace. the latest peace plan from egypt rejected by hamas. what that could mean for the hostages, as israel intensifies its operations in gaza. britt clennett reporting in israel tonight. ukraine destroys a russian warship in crimea. a dramatic blow to the kremlin s black sea fleet. former president trump takes his presidential immunity claims to an appeals court, asking the judges to throw out the election interference case against him. aaron katersky standing by. the econom
craig melvin: the story gripped the nation in the series making a murderer. so many americans have learned about it. laura nirider: it s being heard by people around the world. craig melvin: steven avery and his nephew, convicted of murder and the haunting killing of a young photographer. but were they really innocent? andrea canning: did you have any kind of vendetta against steven avery? absolutely not. craig melvin: for the first time on television, a lead investigator defends his interrogation which led to a conviction overturned. andrea canning: this was seen by many as a false confession. i feel it was a real confession. he knew right from wrong. laura nirider: those officers wanted that information in the worst way, and they got it in the worst way. craig melvin: the prosecutor fights back with an explosive book. people are going to hear the other side of the story. craig melvin: and a promise from steven avery s high-powered, new attorney. andrea canning: do you thi
swept away while riding in their car. and tonight, the new storm now threatening holiday travel. rob marciano is here. the powerful house explosion. the home leveled, debris raining down on the neighborhood. four members of a family pulled from the debris, including the children, and rushed to the hospital. the warning tonight. victor oquendo on the scene in florida. breaking news as we come on tonight involving donald trump. will he be kept off the ballot in the key battleground state of colorado? what that state s supreme court just decided, and what, if anything, can donald trump do about it? the new images coming in, the volcano erupting in iceland. the fast-moving lava. concerns tonight about the possible toxic gas. marcus moore in iceland. tonight, the new attacks. iranian-backed militants launching attacks on commercial ships in the red sea. it comes just hours after the u.s. and several other nations revealed their new task force to try to protect these ships.